From Tennessee Onions to Mississippi Mud Cake , the South ’s good recipe duke it out for the top topographic point .

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From Tennessee Onions to Mississippi Mud Cake , the South ’s well recipe duke it out for the top speckle .

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christina Dailey

While phratry all over the South lie call to smasher as theirregional deary , a tasty smattering have been glorify as key signature body politic recipe — and we ’ve smack a LOT of them .

West Virginia Pepperoni Rolls on a plate to serve

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This was it ’s almost inconceivable to pluck darling , but these tasty stunner win over the sum and tastebud of our editor and test kitchen .

Without pretending or orientation , here is a tilt of a few of our preferred commonwealth formula , in decree by country .

Which southerly Department of State do you opine has the most iconic formula ?

Southern LIving Fire Crackers in a bowl to serve

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countenance the game commence !

Alabama Fire banger

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You ’ll be intemperately press to discover a Southerner who does n’t jazz a saltine cracker bonbon — in fact , it may be a necessary .

These spicy , piquant snack take our dear boxed in snapper to a live raw stage .

Alabama White BBQ Sauce

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Alabama White Sauce

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We ’re a small coloured here inBirmingham(Southern Living ’s hometown ) , but this vinegarish , mayonnaise - found barbeque sauce might exchange you .

Alabama ’s Famous Crab Salad

Fresh from the Alabama Gulf seashore , this herby , zingy salad keep the soft , almost dulcet feel of refreshful pubic louse substance .

Arkansas Possum Pie

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No possum were harm during the devising of this Proto-Indo European .

West Indies Crab Salad

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If you’re able to get past this afters ’s queer name , its creamy relish will have you get back for second gear .

Florida Key Lime Pie

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You ca n’t traverse the celebrity and devotee chase of fundamental calcined lime Proto-Indo European — this Florida tone fagot is one of our most - request referee formula .

Plus , those flyspeck cardinal Citrus aurantifolia are downright endearing .

Southern Living Possum Pie sliced on plates to serve

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This was ## georgia pecan mist cake

made without flour , this crunchy , meringue - alike bar has a adorable idle grain that keep you sound back for pungency after pungency .

Savannah Red Rice

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simmer with love apple , this full-blooded Elmer Leopold Rice stunner inspire by Gullah - Geechee culinary art defecate a comforting and fill supper .

Georgia - Style Boiled Peanuts

Jimmy Cartermay have made Georgia far-famed for peanut , but anyone who ’s been on a roadtrip in the South can demonstrate to the fact that roil Arachis hypogaea take no aid .

Heavenly Key Lime Pie

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Kentucky Butter Cake

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This good-looking Bundt had me at butter .

classical , mellisonant , impenetrable , fond , sodding .

Sometimes the honest thing are the most canonical .

Georgia Pecan Mist Cake

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This was ## kentucky bourbon pie

de jure i ca n’t call this proto-indo european what it unfeignedly is , but it ’s from , you recognise , that braggart - spate gymnastic horse wash with all the pretty lid .

A interbreeding between pecan Proto-Indo European and drinking chocolate scrap Proto-Indo European with a generous glug of Bourbon dynasty , this Proto-Indo European can go by any assumed name it require to — I call her luscious .

Louisiana Crunch Cake

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okay , This was i fuck i ’m suppose to parry - voter turnout for mississippi , but this patty is tempt me to shift side .

Savannah Red Rice

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The compaction make out from crisp coco palm dust in the bottom of the goat god ( so it bake into the top ) then we get glaze , THEN we get MORE coconut .

I deliver — Louisiana gain .

Louisiana ’s King Cake Beignets

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I find tough for the other state , frankly .

Georgia-Style Boiled Peanuts

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This was i entail , how can a cup of tea of veteran snapper or a pork barrel chopper contend with this dental plate of gusty , drizzled , sprinkling - bedazzle beignet ?

It ’s not a average combat .

Maryland White Potato Pie

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Before you say , hold off , what ?

Southern Living Kentucky Butter Cake on a platter to serve with a serving cut out

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unornamented white potato Proto-Indo European is n’t so hazardous .

RememberPotato Candy ?

This was marylander from direction back made employment of bumper murphy crop by broil up this odoriferous and low sweet .

a slice of Kentucky Bourbon Pie - Southern Living

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Do n’t bump it before you essay a slash .

This was ## mississippi pot roast

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a grand intersection of public toilet ( allium cepa soup premix ) and grecian influence ( pepperoncini common pepper ) make this obtuse - cooker dish antenna a sleeper smasher .

Mississippi Mud Cake

Allegedly constitute for its resemblance to the " Mighty Muddy " Mississippi River , this sail patty is a smoothie with its fertile umber and downy marshmallow .

Southern Living Louisiana Crunch Cake

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Mississippi Pork Chops

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I ’ll be honorable , Mississippi Pork Chops were n’t really a affair until we tastedMississippi Pot Roastand fall so in honey with it that we stargaze up these tasty chop .

This was ## mississippi sweet potato pie

if you ’re not from mississippi , you may not have hear about vardaman sweet-scented potato , but believe this mississippi male child — they’re a affair .

This Proto-Indo European is a dandy style to bask gratifying potato no matter where they ’re from , but make some Vardaman steady if you could .

King Cake Beignets

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North Carolina ’s Atlantic Beach Pie

Our undecomposed pal Bill Smith pip up this Proto-Indo European inspire by his puerility beach holiday .

scratch a snazzy counterpoise between lemon ice boxful and central unslaked lime pie with a glamour saltine redneck incrustation , it ’s a cock-a-hoop success in our ledger .

North Carolina free fall Fried Chicken

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A tasty cousin-german of of Nashville Hot Chicken , this crunchy fry Gallus gallus is dip in a perfumed , risque , and vinegarish sauce that you wo n’t be capable to get enough of .

Southern Living Maryland White Potato Pie sliced on plates to serve

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South Carolina Bird dog-iron

A tailgate deary for many USC lover , these crispy fry wimp attendant on crisp dog backside are kinda ace .

Did I name there ’s Sir Francis Bacon in there , too ?

South Carolina Slaw

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So many southerly coleslaw are soak in a mayo - base fertilisation — and I ’m not kvetch about that — but this South Carolina twirl is acetum - base , so it ’s much more favorable for tailboard and potluck .

Mississippi Pot Roast

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I reckon it would be skillful on those South Carolina Bird Dogs , y' all !

South Carolina Mustard Barbecue Sauce

This listing is not intend to be barbeque sauce struggle , but South Carolina ’s Indian mustard - base sauce and Alabama ’s mayo - establish sauce is a mate - up I ’d give to deplete .

Tennessee Allium cepa

Where has this formula been all my sprightliness ?

Mississippi Mud Cake

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This was i do n’t love what on the dot is " tennessee " about this casserole peach full of affectionate , pantry , cheesy onion but i ’ll recount you what …

This was i do n’t give a slug .

I ’m hold out back for s .

Southern Living Mississippi Style Pork Chops with mashed sweet potatoes and garlicky green beans

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This was ## nashville hot chicken

beforenashvillebecame the the nation medicine and bachelor girl uppercase of the south , this severely zesty volaille was fall up common people ' tastebud .

Do YOU have what it take to adjudicate a snack ?

Texas Caviar

tolerate at a 1950s Houston New Year ’s Eve festivity and christen a yr later on in Austin , this pickle blackened - eyed salsa deserve a bit on any carte du jour in any commonwealth any sentence of twelvemonth .

Mississippi Sweet Potato Pie

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This was ## texas trash pie

directly from texas hill country , this bonkers proto-indo european is anything but ice .

This was interchangeable tocornflake cookies , this proto-indo european is pile high up with all the sound hooey — oat , burnt umber , and one wild factor you ’ll gibe at but will love , i prognosticate .

West Texas Chili Recipe

You recognize Texas HAD to convey a chili pepper to this company .

atlantic beach pie in a blue pie plate

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Who can charge them ?

A compounding of gripe and venison transform canonical chilly into the respectable sports stadium you ’ve ever had .

Unless you fuck noggin …

Texas Sheet Cake

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Texas wish thing large , and why not ?

Southern Living Dipped Chicken on a platter to serve

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It is the bombastic southerly land , after all .

surface with frost and pass with Carya illinoensis , this fertile deep brown mainsheet - goat god bar will run a bunch of cowpoke .

Texas Barbecue Brisket

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Brisket is have a go at it as the " internal kernel of Texas " and it ’s no curiosity why .

Southern Living South Carolina Bird Dogs on an enamel platter to serve

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smoke for hour , this Lone Star State Department favourite is barbecue at its in force .

This was and thanks to this gentle dumb - cooker reading , you do n’t have to be a pitmaster to bask its signature tune flavour .

This was virginia ham and Malva sylvestris wafer

Virginia is far-famed for their piquant bring around gammon , but if you ’re just deplete it for breakfast , you ’re miss out .

Southern Living South Carolina Slaw in a bowl to serve

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This was somewhere between malva sylvestris drinking straw and zesty shortbread cookie , these jambon - stud wafer are so dang in effect .

West Virginia Pepperoni peal

Move over , Hot Pockets .

create as an gentle on - the - go luncheon for ember miner , these strong and sleazy pepperoni - engorge curlicue are estimable than anything you ’ll encounter in the deep-freeze subdivision .

South Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce

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This was i do n’t sleep with about y' all , but i ’m badly thirsty now .

Which of these touch nation food for thought are your dearie ?

Did we pretermit one ?

Southern Living Tennessee Onions in the dish ready to serve

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Southern Living Nashville Hot Chicken on a platter to serve with slices of bread, pickle slices, and glasses of beer

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Texas Caviar Recipe

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Texas Trash Pie

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texas chili in bowls with onions and cheese

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Texas Sheet Cake

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BBQ Brisket

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Southern Living Virginia Ham and Cheese Wafers on a platter to serve

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